"Includes section on the history of Bessarabia and Jewish Bessarabia, spiritual-cultural life in Bessarabia, economic life, social life, political-national life, national-Zionist life, public life in the Jewish communities, and Jewish and general folklore of the region. [It] contains bibiographies of writers, poets, educators, and other prominent people. Some items are: Map of Kishinev, 1880, List of those killed in the Odessa pogrom, 1906, Photographs of people, Pinkassim from Dombrovky, Kishinev, and Badsa." (from Clapsaddle (Avotaynu 1990).

Archival Resources - non-English

Summary: Contains files from the central administration of Transnistria (Ukraine) dealing with the local Jews and with the Jews deported from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria, and their fate in the ghettos between the Dniestr and the Bug.

Summary: Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Documents relating to the persecution and deportation of the Jews, confiscation of their properties, military actions against partisans, and secret police records relating to the Romanian retreat from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940.

Summary: Contains memoranda, lists, charts, maps, correspondence, orders, reports, and other documents relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria (Ukraine); establishment of concentration camps in Transnistria; confiscation of Jewish property; executions of Jews; surveillance of Jews in Transnistria; and Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania.

Summary: Contains police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other topics include: religious sects; relations with USSR; Bulgarian irredentists; relations between the Army and the population; Jewish leader Filderman; surveillance of foreigners from Germany and Hungary who applied for citizenship; diplomatic relations with other countries; abuses against Jews; references to the "Jewish problem;" occupation of Bessarabia by USSR and of Transylvania by Hungary; and postwar reports on Legionnaires who emigrated.

Summary: Contains material of the Central Office of Romanianization (the OCR) under the Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection, concerning the Romanianization of personnel of various private enterprises, the sacking of Jews, the hiring of ethnic Romanians in their stead, and "doubling; i.e, the practice of having the sacked worker continue on for a time to teach the new worker his job. Included also are a proposal to accelerate "Romanianization"; a draft law to that effect; explanatory memoranda about it; the structure of the personnel of the OCR; its budgetary expenses; draft law on Romanianization of personnel in North Bucovina and Bessarabia; the "Jewish question" in general and denunciation of Jews by ethnic Romanians; activity reports of the OCR to the Ministry of Labor; requests by refugees and other ethnic Romanians to be "placed" in various jobs; and denunciations of Jews by ethnic Romanians. Also contains correspondence of OCR with various governmental bodies, individual companies, and private persons concerning Romanianization; collections of news clippings concerning Romanianization; inspection of individual companies concerning Romanianization; and correspondence of OCR with individual companies and private persons.

Summary: Contains records related to the surveillance of Jews and expropriation of their property in the regions of Bessarabia and Bukovina, Romania. Also contains documents related to the surveillance and harassment of other minority groups and members of Protestant denominations.

"Materials of the General and Special Surveys of the Bessarabian Province" (Russian title: ?) (RGADA, Moscow, Fond 1229)

"As in the case of the Ekaterinoslav Jewish villages, [this collection contains] information about the Bessarabian colonists is found in “written field survey proceedings.” The information in this fond is somewhat broader than for the Ekaterinoslav colonies. Here we find the power of attorney (called “letter of trust”) of the Jewish petty bourgeoisie of Podolsky Province, who selected trustees to represent their interests in the selection and purchase of individual land for settlement. There are also deeds of purchase, documents by certain powerful Jewish groups wishing to create a colony. Thanks to these documents, we not only possess information about the number and personal makeup of the colonies (for example, the first settlers), but also about the towns or villages from which they came. Surname lists from the powers of attorney, deeds of purchase, and lay agreements allow us to determine the number of Jews in the Bessarabian colonies of Brichova, Dumbraveni, Lublin, Valya-lui-Vlad, and Vertuzhani." (From Feldman "Archival sources for the genealogy..." in Avotaynu, vol. 15, Summer 1999)